Enemies

Last Edit:November 5, 2012 - 4 years 11 months ago

The Halo storyline thus far has depicted humanity's epic struggle against a seemingly unstoppable alien aggressor commonly known as The Covenant. In Halo 4, however, a new hostile race called Prometheans is introduced. The following pages detail the various factions, races, and inhabitants of the Halo universe that are hostile to humans. It has also been leaked through Gameinformer that at some point the Covenant (Now called Storm) and Prometheans will work together in some way.

Several AI enemies were shown in the E3 2012 Microsoft footage. [1] Some were humanoid, some bug-like. All were identified by Cortana as synthetic, and in possession of Forerunner technology. These are Prometheans, and they inhabit Requiem.

The new enemies use ForerunnerWeapons identified by Cortana that reassemble themselves into different configurations. All Promethean weapons dissolve their enemies, displaying the true purpose of the weapons, for they were designed to combat the flood. The flood being the Forerunners' ultimate enemy. Since the only way to permanently kill a flood being is to completely destroy the body, weapons such as the Halo Array were designed, and for smaller engagements, weapons that disintegrate targets were created.

The Halo 4 storyline starts you off fighting the Storm on a rogue pirate ship of sorts. So far only Elites, Grunts, and Jackals have been revealed. It has been confirmed that Hunters shall be in Halo 4 via Achievements, but Brutes have been confirmed not to be in Halo 4.